Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Allied losses in the war's second week were ten ships, 66,868 tons. This was about 23,000 tons less than the first week's losses (despite the Courageous catastrophe) and brought the total to 25 ships, 156,709 tons. Total German losses: four ships, 14,764 tons...
...Quiet will be added a new commentary, fore & aft, and some of the 3,000 feet snipped from the film after it left the hands of Director Lewis Milestone. Universal will also restore to The Road Back controversial footage on Nazi rearmament which was eliminated to spare German sensibilities, add new scenes and a few new characters, including Adolf Hitler...
Thunder Afloat (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a glorification of the "ash can fleet"-the homely little sub chasers whose depth bombs helped break the back of the German submarine campaign in 1918. Written by M.G.M. publicity man Ralph Wheelwright, who served on a sub chaser in World War I, with the collaboration of retired Navy Commander Harvey S. Haislip, produced with the approval and assistance of the Navy Department, which placed the remnant of the Navy's 500 World War chasers at the studio's disposal, Thunder Afloat is an able and reasonably authentic document. As entertainment...
...last fortnight, 5,000 wounded German soldiers arrived in Berlin from the Polish front. Only a handful of doctors and nurses were at the station to help them, and there were neither stretchers nor ambulances enough to go around. Aided by scores of "Hitler girls," the bandaged men were bundled into busses, trucks and taxis, driven to hospitals already overcrowded...
Five days later, notices were posted at the German consulate in Antwerp, begging doctors "of German nationality regardless of race" to come home at once. The posters promised that, because of a serious shortage of physicians, all returning refugees would be immediately repatriated and paid back their confiscated fortunes to the last pfennig. To date, no answers have been received from the 3,000 Jewish doctors who escaped from the Reich...